'Smaller core orchestra' a necessity, management says

Musicians await specific proposal

Feb. 9, 2006

Written by

Andrew Adler
aadler@courier-journal.comThe Courier-Journal

The Louisville Orchestra's management said yesterday that "a smaller core orchestra must be part of any mediated solution" to its fiscal crisis.

"We know that the (musicians' committee) has been unwilling to even consider any changes in the number of full-time musicians," Scott Provancher, the orchestra's executive director, wrote to Tim Zavadil, the committee's chairman.

"If this will continue to be your position, then it is likely that mediation will not be successful." ...